jod kaftan -- fearless futures: why the ia's journey must be a heroes journey
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JOD KAFTAN / CHRIS CHANDLER WORLD IA DAY 2/20/16
WHY THE IA’S JOURNEY MUST BE A HEROES JOURNEY
FEARLESS FUTURES
JOD KAFTAN I CHRIS CHANDLER
WORLD IA DAY 2/20/16
PART 1 PART 2
The Big Yes & The Moral Hypothesis
Unleash Your Superhero: Have Fun with the Flux
By Jod By Chris
CONTENTS
PART 1
BIG NO BIG SHRUG BIG YES
BIG NOLife is in decline—a slow process of purgatorial retrograde
SPENGLER
BIG SHRUGThe universe is simply a neverending cycle of decline and ascent
ARISTOTLE
BACON
BIG YESHumankind is progressive with an onward and upward ascent
Goal: Make healthcare in America a right and not a privilege
PART 1
I got on a project…
PART 1
How did that resistance impact my work and view of life?
What was my resistence to the project goal about…?
PART 1
If I believed that life should exist and that people together could also build a sustainable, brighter future…
How would that impact this project?
“If you really think things are getting worse, you’re going to grab everything you can while
you can, but if you think things are getting better you
invest in the future.”
PART 1
—STEWART BRAND
In Design, We Need More Than Simply a “Vision”
We Need a Moral Imagination
PART 1
Design and Innovation are About 1) Making Something From Emerging Truths and 2) Realizing Preferred Futures
PART 1
PART 1
BUSINESS OUTCOME
CREATE ASSUMPTIONS
PROBLEM STATEMENT
HYPOTHESIS MAKE TEST
Insert Before and Long After….
MORAL HYPOTHESIS
Vision Must Come From More Than Just a Business Outcome, But From a Moral Hypothesis.
Think Like a Founder, Not a Designer
PART 1
Designers Inherit Problems, Founders
Define Them
Think Like a Founder, Not a Designer
PART 1
Designers Inherit Problems, Founders
Define Them
Design Of Business
Design For Business
Business Model Change
Inno
vatio
n
"Get deeply, intensely curious about what the world wants and needs. Ask
yourself what you have the potential to offer that is so unique and compelling and helpful that no computer could replace you, no one could outsource you, no one could steal your product and make it better and then club you
into oblivion (not literally)."
PART 1
—JUSTINE MUSK
“There’s physical courage. For some reason, I have physical courage. But
really if you think about it that’s nothing compared to moral courage. If I don’t have the moral courage to challenge
authority, to write about things that are maybe going to have reprisals on my
career—If I don’t have that moral courage we don’t have journalism.”
PART 1
—JAMES FOLEY
PART 2
DATA INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE WISDOM
ENGINEER ARCHITECT
DESIGNER CHOREOGRAPHER
T H A N K Y O U